A blind cat was struggling — then came an “urgent plea” for help in South Carolina.
The Greenville Humane Society put out calls for someone to give Jett a break from shelter life. A family quickly stepped up, and now the “gentle” cat is getting a fresh start in a foster home.
“We had noticed a decline in his mental health,” Katie Wofford, marketing assistant for the shelter, told McClatchy News in an Oct. 20 email. “We suspect that being in the shelter so long had been hard on him, and his appetite and energy levels seemed to wane. This realization led to us putting out our urgent plea for a foster/adopter, a plea which we are so grateful our community heard, and responded to.”
The shelter celebrated the good news after Jett was originally found as a “feral cat just trying to survive.” He arrived at the humane society, where he faced a health scare while under anesthesia…